A round-up of news in brief from around the region, including the autonomous Papua New Guinea region preparing for its mid-year elections. Tonga – parliament Tonga’s new Prime Minister ...

In 2019, a devastating measles outbreak erupted in Samoa. Eighty-three people, most of them children, died. Another 5,000 ...

With fewer than a third of Samoa’s babies vaccinated, experts and officials feared for the Pacific Island nation. But Kennedy ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s pick for health secretary, sought to use Samoa’s measles vaccine pause as a "natural ...

About eight percent of the participants in Samoa and six percent in Tonga experienced psychological distress, in comparison ...

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From flights to accommodation and activities, there are countless ways to make your island ... Sheraton Samoa Aggie Grey's. EAT HERE: Grab a cold niu (drinking coconut), then wander Apia’s ...

Miami, Florida Keys. Foto Gaetano Cessati via Unsplash The study looked at high-rise buildings in the coastal island belt off mainland Florida, in population centers such as Miami Beach, Surfside, Bal ...

Planned bans — such as in Australia — should be replaced with research and resources to educate parents and carers about the best ways to manage their children’s use of social media.

A series of images from NASA's Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 satellites have captured the island's appearance in the sea and its near-complete disappearance by the end of the following year. Satellite ...

LOVE Island All Stars bombshell Ekin-Su will stun her co-stars by faking an orgasm - as she shows off her acting skills. The former Turkish soap star threw herself into a racy game in the villa ...

Eagle-eyed geologist Mark Tingay recently noticed the emergence of a ‘ghost island’ in November of 2024, caused by a submarine mud volcano called Kumani Bank. Satellites show that the island ...